"Thistlestar, I think we found the cloud in Stonepool's prophecy." Brambleshade meowed to his leader. Thistlestar looked shaken for a second, and returned Brambleshade's stern gaze.

"Where is the cloud cat?" Thistlestar asked Brambleshade. Thistlestar's tail was twitching nervously. Brambleshade didn't notice as he dusted sand out of the den.

"Foxeyes put her in that old badger hole and sent Spiderpaw and Ratspring to guard her." Brambleshade reported. Thistlestar nodded to him and thought, If I have the Cloud I could represent her as a Star Clan omen. The other clans will think I have power..

Thistlestar shook his head for a moment, and relaxed once again.

"Soooo... You're an apprentice?" Cloud asked the short legged Spiderpaw. Cloud had been dusting the sand off the rocks around her. Spiderpaw flicked his tail.

"Yes. I'm new, I guess. Are you a kittypet?" Spiderpaw asked eagerly. "I've never seen one before!" Cloud nodded, and noticed that a new cat was coming into the den.

"So. You are Cloud, right? (Cloud nodded.) Would you like to join Den Clan?" The blue eyed cat asked. Cloud looked surprised. So did Spiderpaw.

"U-um but I'm a-a kittypet." Cloud said nervously, for she didn't know how to react to this. She eyed a rock, and the little Spiderpaw just stood there, astonished.

"I'll take that as a yes. Let her out when the moon rises." Thistlestar meowed at Ratspring and Spiderpaw. All three of the cats (Ratspring, Spiderpaw, and Cloud) just stood in the den as Thistlestar left.

"Soo... who are you and who was that cat?" Cloud said, making a conversation again. Ratspring told Cloud her name, and that the cat with blue eyes was their leader, Thistlestar.

"You need to know the other apprentices, Cloud." Spiderpaw eagerly meowed at her, and Ratspring left the den for a hunting patrol. Cloud nodded and turned to Spiderpaw.

"I'm Spiderpaw, and Ratspring is my mentor. The medicine's cat apprentice is Lightpaw. There's also Boarpaw, he's really big, and he is also about to become a warrior!" Spiderpaw replied to Cloud's nod. Before long, the moon had risen up.

"Come on, Cloud! You're going to become an apprentice!" Spiderpaw led Cloud to a giant rock with some carvings in it. The cat called Thistlestar stood on top of the rock, where there was a flat surface.

"All cats old enough to catch prey gather for a clan meeting!" Thistlestar yowled, and cats came out of the other dens dug into the cliffside. Cloud stood right underneath the rock.

"Cloud, from this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Cloudpaw.. Your mentor will be Foxeyes.. I hope Foxeyes will pass down all he knows on to you." Thistlestar meowed grandly. Foxeyes came next to Cloudpaw.

"Foxeyes, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You have received excellent training from Greatpelt, and you have shown yourself to be stealthy and fierce. You were the first one to find her, so you will be the mentor of Cloudpaw, and I expect you to pass on all you know to Cloudpaw." Thistlestar meowed, making Foxeyes puff out his chest.

"Thank you." Foxeyes meowed sincerely, and he and Cloudpaw climbed up to the giant rock. Cloudpaw and Foxeyes touched noses, and the cats below were calling out 'Cloudpaw! Cloudpaw!' The moon steadily shined above.

"Clan dismissed." Thistlestar yowled over the crowd, and the cats slowly started doing other things. Cloudpaw walked back down to greet Spiderpaw, with Foxeyes behind her.

"Cloudpaw, you get to watch over camp now! Go up to the top of the gorge, and keep watch!" Spiderpaw said, and Foxeyes nodded and offered to show Cloudpaw the way. She shook her head and started climbing up the gorge, using her tail as balance.

"I made it!" Cloudpaw sighed wearily, "I didn't know being a apprentice was so exciting!" She sat on the edge of the gorge, waving her tail at the cats below as they went to their dens.

"I wonder where I'll sleep.." Cloudpaw murmered, thinking of a nice comfy moss bed. She heard a rustle, and looked behind her. There was a mouse, just sitting there in the clearing.

"Squeak?" It said, and Cloudpaw jumped on it, and got it. She held it in her paw and used her claws to kill it. Cloud brought it back to the edge, and ate it in a few gulps.

"I wonder what the other clans are like..." Cloud said as she watched the empty gorge below. A meow came out from somewhere, making Cloud jump.

"What was that?" Cloud said as the thing meowed again. She went over to a moss patch and saw a little brown kit with a white head, like an eagle. It meowed at Cloud, laying in its side. There was a red mark on its flank, and it looked recent.